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Antony And The Johnsons
Antony And The Johnsons


Background information
Genre(s) Chamber Pop
Dark Cabaret
Years active 1998—present
Label(s) Rough Trade Records
Secretly Canadian
Website Website
Members
Antony Hegarty
Julia Kent
Parker Kindred
Jeff Langston
Rob Moose
Maxim Moston
Doug Wieselman



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Antony And The Johnsons Album


Swanlights (10/12/2010)
10/12/2010
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Flétta (with Björk)
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Every everything
Everything is new
Every everything
Everything is new
Every everything
Everything is new

I cried everything
Everything is new
I cried everything
Everything is new
Every everything
Everything is new


. . .


Swim with me my mama when I die
In the ocean of death I will cry
If I am not with my family
You could be my friend eternally

Swim with me my Sister when I die
In the great white ocean we must try
Try to find a way that we can see
See each others faces in the sea

Swim with me my Brother when I die
I don't ever want to say good-bye
If you do go first or if it's me
Oh my darling brother, swim with me

Swim to me my Father when I die
Please remember Father, we must try
Try not to forget our family
Oh my darling Father, rescue me

. . .


Ghost! Ghost!
Leap from my heart
And find your way

Chase the river
Chase the sunlight
Do not stay

Open yawns the sky before
Dance toward a light so gay
Do not waste a thought behind you
Don't pity this useless clay

Snake! Snake!
Shed your skin
And go away

Leave behind your shadow's memory
Leave me, this is your day

. . .


I'm in the ocean, in the sea
The red choral caressing me

And you need only say the word
I'll kiss you like a humming bird

I've been walking for a long time
I never did commit no crime

And all my dreams, they all came true
The day I lay my head on you

The day that you cracked open and died
Ten black boys flew free from inside

I don't know where I'm going so
I'm gonna lay down in the snow

. . .

Violetta

[No lyrics]

. . .


Ooh I'm living
It's a golden thing
It means everything

I'm gifted
By your grace
It's the Swanlights
In the water
On that shining face

Ooh it's such a mystery to me
Ooh it's such a mystery to me

What I have seen
Faces in my dreams
Ooh the Swanlights
The Swanlights

When I close my eyes
And dream Swans come
When in love I lean
On the Swanlight song

Ooh it's such a mystery to me
Ooh it's such a mystery to me

I'm dancing with their necks
Dancing neck to neck

. . .


The spirit was gone from her body
Forever and had always been inside that shell
Had always been intertwined
And now were disintwined
It's hard to understand
Oh...

. . .


When all was falling in the seizure of pain
When I was lost in the darkness
When my mind was broken into a thousand pieces
I want to thank you for your love

. . .


Skafa me∂ skrúfu
Ég kem pegar hann
Ég fletti rólega bakvi∂ lendarnar hvernig
Ég skafa öldurnar eins og sund fram á vi∂
Leyf∂u mér a∂ fletta ofan af mér
Allt sem mig langar í er a∂ mykjast öll a∂ innan endalaust
Loksins finn ég árangur dettur af pessi farangur
Hrynur af lag eftir lag og ég storma upp
Út

. . .


The flying horse carries me across the sky
Triumvirate swallows make our breath
Can we grow a sun
A water run
The Great White Water?
Every slum an ox inside it
Sweet crevice for miniature flies?

Dancing with her casket
Christ becomes wife
The easy dust is dancing, too
It splits the waterside in two

Elect the Salt Mother
For She's a Selective Christ

Punch her ghost!
For shore she'll sigh
And watch the window gifts rise

. . .


I got kissed by
A turtle dove
Upon a cold
Paris manger

I was waking up
To my love
First moment's
Dawning danger

Everything was new
Every sock and shoe
My face and your face
Tenderly renewed

I awoke to find
A whiteness inside
Everything did shine
Slyly, from each body

Halos from within
Diamonds the air in
As we crossed to where
The Virgin Mary

Moves over the fields
Here and there, she kneels
Sighing sweet relief
Upon the prairie

As the rich winds blow
Kiss each flamingo
Tousle reckless trains of
The wild white horses

And at night the owl
Streaks the field and howls
She seizes a kitten
Stops wind aghast
To hear them shudder

. . .


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